Book II. c HR Is T COMPARED TO AN EAGLE. 453 even into the Hell of wicked Mens diabolical Counfels, and can thoroughly fee their bloody Purpofes and Contrivances; although they dig never fa deep, yet they cannot hide themfelves from his Omnifcience, for he fees what they are doing. SIMILE PARALLEL V. The Eagle is a mighty fwift V. The Lord Jefus is fwift when he comes to Creature: l>1y Days arc fwifter fight againft the Enemies of his Church, he is lhananEagle. She is fwift in purfwift in the executing of his Judgments, fwift to fuit of her Prey, Dcut. xxviii. 49· deliver and help his People. See Metaphor, Sun, Job ix. 25. 2Sam. i. 23. Jobviii. 1. Hart, &c. VI. The Eagle, Hiftorians tell VI. J efus Chri!t, the fpiritual Eagle, fought m,• fights with Dragons and Serwith that great red Dragon the Devil, and bath pents, and overcomes them. bruifed the Head of the Dragon, Gen. iii. 15. VII. The Eagle hath ftrong and V!I. The Lord J efus hath ftrong Love, enlarglong Wings, which fhe eafily ed and great AffeCtions, which like t\vo long fpreads forth for the Succour and Wings he ilretcheth out eafily in the way of his Help of her Young, Ezek. xvii. 3· gracious Providences, for the Help and Succour VIII. The Eagle bears and car– ries her Young upon her Wings, takes them, beareth them upon her Wings, Deut. xxxii. 11, 12. of his People; he £hall arife with healing under his Wings, Mal. iv. 2. VIII. The Lord J efus beareth and carrieth his faithful Children upon the ~'ings of his Power and fovereign Grace ; thus he bare and carried lfrael of old, I have borne you upon Eagles Wings. Hearken unto me, 0 Hpufe of J acob, and all the Remnant of the Houje of Ifrael, who are borne by me from the Belly, whicJ. were carried from the Womb: I will bearyou, I will carry you, &c. Exod. xix. 14. Ija. xlvi. 3• 4IX. The Eagle hides her Young IX. The Lord Jefus hides his Children in the in high and mighty Rocks, where Secrets of the Almighty, that glorious Rock of her Ndl: is, even in the fame ragAges: Their Place of Defence fhall be a Muuitioil ged Place of inacceflible Rocks. of Rocks, lfa. xx.xiii. 16. Da'!Jid knew what he did, when he fled to God for Shelter: Under the Shadow of thy Wings will I make my Refuge, until theft Calamities be overpa.ft, Pfal. lvii. 1. See Refuge. ' X. The Eagle's Voice, NatuX. Jefus Chri!t when he utters his Voice in ralifts tell us, t is fa terrible, that Anger, and rifes up to the Prey, he will caufe all when he is angry, he makes alllivthe Inhabitants of the Earth to tremble; they.will ing Creatures to be afraid. Dracall to the Hills and Mountains to fall upon them, cones, audito clangore Aquilarum, and to hide them from the Face of him that fittetb fugerunt in jpeluncas: The Draupon the Throne, and from the Wrath of the Lamb, gons, when they hear the angry Re·v. vi. 18. Nay, the Time will come, when Voice of the Eagles, fly into the the old Dragon will be glad to fly into his Den. Dens to hide themfelves. The Devils were afraid of him, when he came as a Lamb : Art thou come to torment· us before the Time.? Be wife now therefore, 0 ye Kings; be inftruEted, 0 _Ye Judges of the Earth: Kift the Son, le.ft he be angry, and ye perijh fl·om the Way, when his Wrath is kindled but a little. Bleffed are all they that put their 'l"ru.ft in him, Pfal. ii. 10, 12. XI. The Eagle's Way in the Air XI. The Way of Chri!t's Love, Wifdom, cannot be known. Providence, &c. cannot be known or found out XII. Hiilorians fay, the Eagle can look on the Sun in its bright– eftSplemlor without being dazzled. She tries her young Ones the fame way, to fee whether they be her true Off-fpring; for if they cannot behold the Sun but wink, or their Eyes water, fhe turns them out of their Neil, and difowns them, as Degenerates or Bailards. to perfeCtion, Job xi. '7· Eph. iii. '9· XII. J efus Chriil hath a glorious and clear Sight, can behold with open Face the Glory of the excellent Majefty, and the higheft Splendor and lleaury of that immortal and inacce!Iible Light, which no natural Eye can approach unto. And although none of his People can fee as he feeth, who is infinite in Knowledge ; yet thofe · that pretend to be his Off.fpring, and are not like him in Grace, Heavenly-mindednefs, and Holi– nefs, nor endeavour after it, from that Excd- • Plin. lib, x. cap. +· t Wolfang. Franlz. Hijl. A11imal. "' A~uil. p. JZ5, JJS. 5 Z lency
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